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(1) Introduction--overview of ILC
ILC (International Linear Collider) is a ongoing Global
initiative to design, get approval from various governments,
construct and operate an ILC by 2015-2017.
ILC will be a linear (20 mile long) collider of electrons
and positrons beams, with a total Energy of 500 Gev, though
future upgrade to 1 TeV may be possible.
The Goal of such a collider is to
more detailed information on ILC current efforts are in Talks from July 2006 Vancouver Linear Accelerator workshop
For a more detailed advanced description of various physics objectives, see the 480 page "book" ILC Physics Resource guide for Snowmass 2001 ---(individual chapters can be downloaded separately--note that this is from 2001, so, some of machine information is outdated--as well as some of the Physics studies results)--
Many other useful links are
ALCPG (American Linear Collider Physics Group
ILC newline
--weekly news letter from the ILC GDE--Global Design Effort--The GDE, headed
by Barry Barish working with all the interested Physicists and
accelerator people, is expected to arrived at a conceptual design--The ILC
RDR (Reference Design Report) and the DCR (Detector Concept Report)
both due early 2007--see
GDE Report at Vancouver workshop
Many Physicists interested in ILC have contributed software and studies, starting more than 10 years ago. For an overview of the Simulation studies, see Mark Thomson's review at the 4/06 Cambridge ILC software and Physics meeting Where are we now and what next
In particular, take a look at slide 4--which give a list of software framework and tools available for ILC simulation and Physics studies.
Much of the current effort at Fermilab involve using SLIC/org.lcsim/ LCIO/JAS3, as well as confluence. Some projects just use GEANT4.
Some other potentially useful web sites include
SLIC
ilcsim information ilcsim is the Fermilab server for ilc simulation
lcsim--Linear Collider Simulation
2000 Linear Collider Physics
Studies at Fermilab
You can test drive some of the software by following the instructions on lcsim getting started--using JAS3 with the LCSIM Event Browser or the Event Display plug-in, you can look at some events from a file generated at SLAC. You can then try doing some simple analysis.
There are 2+ (perhaps complementary) ways to work on ILC simulation studies at Fermilab
Here's a partial list of potential studies projects (to be added later)--name included people who are working on these projects (), or those who are interested []
PHYSICS STUDIES PROJECTS
Simulation Studies projects
Many Simulation projects are ongoing at Fermilab currently-- if some particular project interest you, please contact the appropriate person(s)--here's a partial list (to be updated)